As a result of the ongoing maintenance work being undertaken by the Nigerian Gas Company, Nigeria’s biggest power plant, Egbin Power Plant has announced a reduction in its power generating capacity from 813MW to 660MW.
Confirming the development, Seun Olagunju, Public Affairs Director for the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said that currently, the national power generation output stands at 4, 274MW.
Egbin Power Plant is a gas-fired thermal plant made up of 6 independent boiler turbine units of 220MW each with the generation capacity of 1320MW. The plant can as well operate on High Pour Fuel Oil, commonly called HPFO.The plant is located on a low land in Ijede and bounded by the Lagoon to the South of Egbin, in Ijede Town approximately 40km to the North East of the city of Lagos.
The plant was initially constructed in 1982 by the Marubeni Consortium who used the Electric/Mechanical resources from Hitachi Company of Japan. Bouygues Company based in France, offered Civil works for the successful completion of the plant.
